The peasant worldview in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was characterized by numerous vestiges of paganism, Igor Marzaliuk said in the latest episode of BelTA’s project True History. Lectures ...

Tchaikovsky, a master of orchestral sonority, places a good part of the emotional and expressive burden on the orchestra, leaving the singers with well-crafted melodies and dialogues in Russian speech ...

Igor Marzalyuk noted that Evdokim Romanov preserved several versions of a legend about Ilyushka that existed in Bykhov Uezd.

Taras Shevchenko, a prominent Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public figure of the 19th century, is revered as a national hero in Ukraine. His literary works, which primarily focus on the lives ...

Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

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When Ukraine declared independence in 1991, journalist Lee Kyu-tae highlighted Gogol’s Ukrainian origins. Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), a 19th-century Ukrainian-born novelist and playwright of the ...

The historic Prince Trubetskoy winery in the Kherson Region, renamed Stoic Winery in 2023, was completely destroyed by russian strikes. The chateau survived occupation, looting, and numerous damages, ...

Russian literature may be best known in the West for producing big lumbering novels, novels thicker than bricks—think War & Peace, Brothers Karamazov, or Gulag Archipelago—but from the beginning of ...

This year’s short film sensation, The Singers, is finally available for global audiences to stream, and it’s a cinematic experience not to be missed. Oscar-shortlisted and generating buzz since its ...

The eastern city of Dnipro on Friday pulled down a bust of Alexander Pushkin — like Dostoevsky, a giant of 19th century Russian literature. A strap from a crane was unceremoniously looped under the ...